Yoshihito Nishioka is a tennis player from Japan. He has one ATP Tour singles championship and career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 48 on February 24, 2020.
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Yasuo Nishioka is the famed brother of Nishioka.
He is a tennis instructor himself.
At the 2020 Australian Open he got to round 3 of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career winning against 30th seed Dan Evans.
He reached his second ATP final in Delray Beach, where he was defeated by Reilly Opelka in 3 sets.
Nishioka qualified for the quarterfinals in Lyon, winning Ugo Humbert and 5th seed Gaël Monfils in 3 sets. He ended up losing to Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets.
In Acapulco, he reached the quarterfinals as a qualifier defeating World No. 16 Taylor Fritz before losing to World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev.
At the 2022 Miami Open, he defeated Dan Evans to reach the third round as a qualifier only for the second time in his career at this Masters. At the 2022 Citi Open he reached again the quarterfinals at this level during the season, defeating Jenson Brooksby, Atlanta champion and 11th seed Alex De Minaurand 7th seed Karen Khachanov in straight sets.
He defeated 16th seed Dan Evans in three tough sets to reach the semifinals of an ATP 500 event for the first time in his career.
As a result, he moved close to 40 positions up back into the top 70 and became the No. 1 Japanese player.
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